Reference Librarianship: Notes from the Trenches

By Peter Sprenkle and Charles Robert Anderson

Book Overview

Reference Librarianship documents a year in the life of a young librarian working in the "trenches" at a library in the Midwestern United States. This one-of-a-kind book provides a daily diary of every librarian/patron transaction-no matter how mundane or absurd-to demonstrate not only how advances in technology have affected the reference librarian's job, but how the public's expectations have changed, as well. The book also includes observations by a now-retired reference librarian on the current state of the field based on these unedited interactions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789029480
• ISBN13: 9780789029485
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.4"